Rick Perry's Power Grab

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If he finishes this term of office, Rick Perry will be the longest-serving governor in Texas history. There has been much speculation that Perry’s recent spasm of ambitious initiatives—mandating that all girls entering sixth grade be vaccinated for HPV, for instance, and trying to privatize the state highway system—are efforts to ensure a grand legacy for the man from Haskell County. But Perry’s greatest bequest to the people of Texas is what he has already done. This issue’s cover story, “The Governor’s Database,” details just one little known and disturbing piece of what has become the broadest expansion of the power of the Office of the Governor since Texans opted for a weak-governor system in 1876. Despite his headline-generating proposals, most of this expansion is being done piecemeal, dribbled out in press releases over time. Its true extent is largely hidden.
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